Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-20
Courcu;cnces 10. Iar,s-H0mses.


Mrs. Kidgie, teacher of household econ
nv in Kansas Agricultural College. says:
large proportion of the women in co.ntry
omes, where homework is hardest. work
q great disadvantage. The disadvant-
90 comes to the worker in the Kitchen
ut. through not having house built to
Fork in, and, second, through not having
h many small conveniences to work with
tat are to be found in our ordinary fur
fishing stores of to-day. In building a
ouse, the usual way on the farm is to
lock out plan, then put it into the hands
The carpenter, and they really do the
Ranging Of much of the inside of the
ouse, Now, since woman is to have the
host of the living in these rooms, why
Doesn't she do the planning? It seems
easonable that she should ut least decide
mon her kitchen, with its pantry, its cup
(oards, closets, drawers and sink-puttlng
Kings in just rs she individually wants
hem. She may tuck in few large closets,
lso, where men might, as a rule, think
here we're none needed. Twenty years
loo Kansas carpenter was utterly aston
shed when woman, who was having q
house built, insisted on two closets for the
kecond floor, where there were three rooms.
1.-Two closets were almost unheard of then in
| Kansas farmhouse.
If the good work needed in the building
bf the house be neglected, q little money
kpent in the way of buying conveniences
Tor doing work will often save itself over
Ind over again in wages for help, and,
havhap, in DOCTORS bills as we'll. The
flashing. machines and wringers take away
half the horrors of Monday, and nickel
plated irons, with wooden handles, help
Tuesday 10 dispose of the ironing with
lmazing rapidity. The carpet.sweeper is a
hue missionary 10 tired muscles, for it
Iften saves them from destruction. Even
be egg. beaten, good coffee mill, sharp
nyes, light kettles 1.-THE new granite ware
so much easier to tilt than the old iron
es, plenty of pans and basins, all go to
bake up comfortable days for woman by
wing her q chance to do her work rapidly
ID we'll.
Many cooks keep their -four in very in
ntAient receptacles. A -four chest,
tlh the young ladies of tho kitchen
bOntory have found very convenient. is
sily made at home by almost any man if
can handle tools even only inditferently.
consists of q -four box on one side, with
divided box on the other for graham and
En.meal. molding board slides over
til, and small boxes on each side contain
ices favoring extracts, soda, baking
WIDER, and, indeed. all the small ne
esaries for cooking. Nails on the side
I'd the stirring spoons; and. in truth, all
articles wanted when one must do cook
are found right here. We often take
r large cake bowl to this flour chest, and,
Prcely stepping away. have cake OF
Eeuits ready for the oven.
vi course, every woman in having made
ything of that kind would have her in
Fldual ideas worked out. No stranger
|uld want one exactly like ours. no two
men would have them precisely the
PIE. Many prefer the tilting flour boxes,
(ere the chestful springs out or in ut the
fch of finger. There are two of these
our kitchen laboratory, but the girls
Pm to prefer the larger one, where every
ng is within reach. Now, these are
Pply examples. Every woman who
Fps house, doing her own work, can, if
choose, have many inexpensive helps
Will do much toward preserving her
lih and strength. l hold it every wo-
ns duty to SO measure her work that she
10 each days share without overMxing
strength, that she has no right to draw
M and when she does overuse the
cunt given her for her one days work,
draws upon the future, making herself
ne 10 the heaviest kind of usury when
Is called to pay her debts.-The Indus-